Kate Cassidy

Kate Cassidy was born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland and is the third youngest of one of eleven of a family. Kate started singing at a very young age and can never remember wanting to be anything else. As a teenager she entered numerous talent computations winning many, with her soulful and powerful voice, but her real desire was to travel and see the world as an original recording artist, so she started by travelling to London finding a management contract and learning the craft of co-writing with other artists. Kate then went on to New York, and spent 4 years on and off writing and recording with many great writers and producers, co-writing and singing original material with such talents as Steve Skinner producer/engineer (Tailor Dane), songwriters Shelly Pecan (Hit and Run Music Publishing), Kerryn Tolhurst, All Fired Up (Pat Benatar) and Steve Melton of Muscle Shoals Alabama, producer engineer, (Joan Baez, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel, Wilson Picket) and many other talented artists from all over. While there Kate received a studio and publishing contract and co-wrote her songs with Garth Brooks in house writers, Kate felt there was too much country influence in the music and not enough rock. Kate did not think they were listening to her ideas enough so she decided to return back home. At the beginning of 1997 Kate bought her first guitar and produced her first album "In Your Hands" with the help of local musicians from her home town of Glasgow. From Kate Cassidy's growing reputation and brilliant live performances throughout the UK, the public gave Kate the title "Scotland's Queen of Rock", and is much respected as a unique singer/songwriter from her appearances at "T" in the Park, King Tuts, The Boarder Line, Edinburgh Music Festival Dynamic Earth, World Art Stage, The Canons' Gait, BBC Music Live Event, Aberdeen's Alternative Festival, The Lemon Tree, Nozstock, plus TV and Radio. In 2002 Kate received an e-mail from Mike Burn with an invitation to come to Germany. Six months later Kate landed in Frankfurt/Germany to meet MBAF for the first time with her acoustic guitar. It was going to be a further 15 months before Kate was to return to Germany due to other commitments. In the spring of 2003 Kate returned to Germany where Kate and MBAF have rehearsed and have played numerous gigs in Frankfurt and the surrounding area to the delight of the audiences that have been surprised and fascinated, at the ability of this voice and the force from were it comes. It is electric, powerful and alluring, Kate's Style of Rock R&B song writing and self-determination, has given her an edge that is more like a one woman rock band, There are many fantastic voices you could compare Kate Cassidy to; Sheryl Crow, Joan Baez, Bonny Raite, Aretha Franklin, Maggie Bell, Tina Turner, Tori Amos, Melissa Etheridge and Alanis Morissette, but none more unique than this Scottish artist! This is a world-class voice not to be dismissed!